Feb. 22, 2025 Department Tells Gold Star Families: We'll Find Loved Ones, Bring Them Home Some 380 Gold Star families attended a family member update to learn how the agency is proceeding in efforts to repatriate the remains of service members who never returned home from the Vietnam War, the Korean War or World War II.
Sept. 20, 2024 Austin Says Finding the Missing is the Nation's 'Ironclad Commitment' Locating and identifying the remains of service members killed in conflicts is the nation's 'ironclad commitment,' Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said during a National Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Recognition Day ceremony at the Pentagon.
April 27, 2023 South Korean President Yoon Visits Pentagon, Discusses Deterrence South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol met with Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III at the Pentagon to discuss the U.S.-South Korea alliance and ways to make that alliance even closer.
July 19, 2019 Aiming higher: Airmen contribute to human spaceflight from Apollo to tomorrow From Air Force Col. Nick Hague, who is currently aboard the International Space Station, all the way back to Buzz Aldrin, who was a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot in the Korean War, Airmen are among the more than 60% of astronauts who came from the uniformed service.